The Longest Shortest Time

Books: For Talking the Birds & the Bees with Your Kid

Dreading “the talk”? Here are some age-appropriate reads for pre-schoolers through high-schoolers. Plus, a few picks for you.

First Chapter Books for Preschoolers

Bored of the same old picture books? Try a chapter book that won’t go over your preschooler’s head!

Books: How to Build a Baby

On Wednesday I told you about how a baby is built. There are books that will teach you about that. Like I said, Sasha was not ready for books like these. But I had a whole stack of them sitting by my desk for at least a month, and I developed some favorites. Cory Silverberg’s […]

We Can’t Stop: Manners Edition

Recently Sasha has been stuck on one book, one song, and one video. So I figured it was time for another We Can’t Stop post. Because we literally can’t stop. The Book Many of you may be familiar with James Marshall’s George and Martha, the lovable hippos with a loyal and realistically complex friendship. One […]

We Can’t Stop: Skill Building Edition

Over the Christmas break, my husband and I went on a Sasha-less overnight excursion and left Sasha with my parents at their house. This is the second time we’ve done that, but Sasha was too young the first time to remember it. Word has it, she had a blast. Playing on the playground at the […]

We Can’t Stop: Oh No! Edition

Sasha loves a book with a dramatic “Oh no!” Which I guess could describe the climax of any good story. But she especially likes when the words “Oh no!” literally appear on the page. That is certainly her favorite part of the book at the top of our new We Can’t Stop Reading list: More […]

We Can’t Stop: Flashlight Edition

To all of you reading this: I hope you are safe and someplace with lights and heat and water and cold refrigerators. Luckily, we only lost some of those things for a few days, and managed to not have any of the GIANT TREES that fell all over our neighborhood fall on us. We stuck […]

We Can’t Stop: What Are You Talking About? Edition

Sasha’s latest favorite thing to say is, “What are you talking about?” Whenever I’m talking to another grownup she’ll interrupt us with the question as soon as she’s lost (usually pretty immediately). There are variations, too: What are you saying? What are you doing? What is that? What is HE saying? I often find myself […]